November Honeymoon including Normandy?

I went on RS Paris and the Heart of France tour and we stayed 2 nights in Bayeux and toured the Normandy beaches. If you want more time there, you could stay a third night. We also stayed a night and day at Mont St. Michel, necessary because after the day trippers leave, you have the island mostly to yourselves. There are hotels on the island.
On the way back to Paris, we spent the afternoon at Giverny and toured Monet's house and lovely gardens. You will have to see if they are open in Nov. Sorry, I just realized you are going late Nov.
On the way to Bayeux, we stopped and had lunch in an old town called Foureges (sp). Quaint. Victor Hugo had a connection there I seem to remember. If you have his guidebook, that will be a big help. Also, take a look at the itinerary of his Paris & HOF tour for more ideas.
Have fun!

We stayed in Honfleur and Bayeux, both charming towns. We liked our Bayeux hotel a lot, Hotel Lion d’Or. It is historic, has parking, great restaurant, and they have scrapbooks about WWII and the hotel during the war. I believe Eisenhower and Churchill stayed there.

Honfleur is quite wonderful. I also enjoyed a couple hours at Etretat. If you do Mont St. Michel (you should) you are then close to Brittany. You might consider Dinard, Dinan and Saint Malo. All cute little towns as far as I'm concerned. Also in Brittany and charming is Locranon. Its absolutely stunning. We stayed there a night. It was the beginning of October so it was really quiet so not a lot of choices for restaurants/hotels, but we liked it quiet, and fortunately we enjoyed the hotel with restaurant that was open.

Every area of France has "cute small-towns". I think what you might do is decide on a region(s) and then google, or search on Pinterest, "Cute small towns France". You will find a lot because I have done this for my three trips to France. Alternatively, do the search and make a bucket list of cute/small towns and then locate them on a map and to determine the geographic proximity.

For D-Day beaches, I highly recommend Arromanches. It has remnants of the concrete blocks used for "Mulberry" harbour and has a nice D-Day museum. It is a very cute small town. We stayed at a modest inn with a very nice and highly recommended restaurant. https://www.lemulberry.fr

For a honeymoon, I recommend La Cour St. Catherine http://www.coursaintecatherine.com/b-and-b-honfleur-normandy which was a RS recommendation I believe.

In Locranon we stayed and ate at Le Prieuré https://www.hotel-le-prieure.com/

On a RS tour our group had Dale Booth for our D Day tour. Excellent guide. Knowledgeable, good story teller. Really paints a good picture of the events of that day.

https://dboothnormandytours.com

Overlord tours often comes up in the forum and seems well liked. I’ve no experience with them.

Most if not all of the companies doing one-day D-Day tours from Bayeux seem to use vans rather than large buses. I was very happy with my Overlord tour, and Dale Booth also draws positive comments on this forum. I highly recommend a tour rather than trying the do-it-yourself approach. The driver/guide's explanations will be very helpful, and of course he will not waste any time by getting lost. Pack a lunch so you can spend almost all your time in St.-Mere-Eglise (the lunch stop on my tour) at the Airborne Museum rather than rustling up food. Note, however, that you cannot eat in the van.

On one of your other days you can spend time at the WW II museum in Bayeux and/or the larger Peace Museum in Caen. The Caen museum is easiest by car or by short train hop to Caen and a taxi, though there is city-bus sevice out to the museum.

I, too, liked Fougeres, but it's more on the way from Paris to St.-Malo, not close to the route you'd take from Paris to Bayeux. I also liked Vitre, but it's not quite as convenient to your probable path. I visited both of those towns via public transportation from a base in Rennes.

I feel I should note my concern about the timing of your trip. Normandy and Brittany are fabulous summer destinations, because they are extremely unlikely to suffer heat waves. I'm not at all sure about November, when the weather may be in the 40s during part of the day (and possibly lower at night), and there may be a good bit of rain. Given the short days at that time of year, it's not the direction I would go, but I am one of those people who really needs sunlight for energy. Do at least think about how cute the little towns without many indoor attractions are going to seem if it's in the low 40s at midday and raining.

AC Raven has brought up the thing I'm worried about -- late November in Normandy is likely to be dark and wet (not to mention a bit cold). That doesn't mean it's not doable -- but you need to know that going in and be prepared for the conditions to be less than ideal.

Rouen is magical. I am in my last week of a 4-week lingusitic stay and I am still discovering things.

I liked Rouen a great deal, too, and it has a good number of indoor attractions.

Thank you for all of your suggestions! The plan as of right now is to drive a short ways to Chartres to stay a night (and recover from the flight). We will then head to Mont St. Michel for at least one night, possibly stopping by Fougères, and then travel to Bayeux for a few days including a D-Day tour. Having done some research, I think renting a car is the best bet for the areas we will be traveling. I'm assuming there's a large one-way drop off fee, so it looks like we may have to rent and return it at CDG airport, though I see that there are some car companies that do not charge one-way-fees within France. After dropping of the car, we will finish with three nights in Paris!

Try Autoeurope. I have rented three times within France, all one way rentals and have never paid a drop fee or a one way rental. I get better rates in Europe than I get at home.